Subject: Administrative, GOES-15 Status Update, March 22, 17:45 UTC ----------------------------------------- Update: #6 GOES-15 (GOES-West) recovery is underway. The problem has been isolated; however, the estimated return to service will occur no earlier than 1600 UTC on Friday, March 23, 2012. In addition, a comprehensive list of products impacts is provided in this message. Lastly, we are currently experiencing some challenges that are impacting our group e-mail notification distribution. We will return to normal operations as soon as possible, and regret any inconvenience this outage may cause. Update: #5 The GOES West data outage status has not changed. LRIT TEXT EMWIN DCS NWS are still red. GOES-15 recovery activities continue and all payloads and services remain off. The Engineering are estimating the recovery time to service for GOES-15 West on J/Day 083 at 1200Z. Engineering continues to run recovery procedures. GOES-13 East is operating in a Full Disk imaging mode while GOES-15 is out of service. Update: #4 The GOES West data outage status has not changed. LRIT TEXT EMWIN DCS NWS are still red. GOES-15 recovery activities continue and all payloads and services remain off. The estimated return to service for GOES-15 West is undetermined at this time. Engineering continues to run recovery procedures. GOES-13 East is operating in a Full Disk imaging mode while GOES-15 is out of service . Update: #3 The GOES West data outage status has not changed. LRIT TEXT EMWIN DCS NWS are still red. GOES-15 recovery activities continue and all payloads and services remain off. The estimated return to service for GOES-15 West is undetermined at this time. Engineering continues to run recovery procedures. GOES-13 East is operating in a Full Disk imaging mode while GOES-15 is out of service. Update: #2 The GOES West data outage status has not changed. LRIT TEXT EMWIN DCS NWS are still red. GOES-15 recovery activities continue and all payloads and services remain off. The estimated return to service for GOES-15 West is undetermined at this time. Engineering continues to run recovery procedures. GOES-13 East is operating in a Full Disk imaging mode while GOES-15 is out of service. Update: #1 The GOES West data outage status has not changed. Engineers are currently investigating this outage. Topic: GOES-15 West data outage. Date/Time Issued: March 22, 2012, 1705 UTC Product(s) or Data Impacted: GOES-15 West Imager and Sounder data and associated products, ancillary communication services (DCS/LRIT/EMWIN/SAR) Date/Time of Initial Impact: March 21, 2012, 2045 UTC Date/Time of Expected End: March 23, 2012 1600 UTC (estimated) Length of Outage: TBD Update: #6 GOES-15 (GOES-West) recovery is underway. The problem has been isolated; however, the estimated return to service will occur no earlier than 1600 UTC on Friday, March 23, 2012. Please note: GOES-13 East is operating in a Full Disk imaging mode while GOES-15 is out of service. Here is a comprehensive list of products impacts. GOES-15 Imager (Specific Images): Super National Image (truncated in west) NO West CONUS Sector Imagery NO Alaska Regional and National Sector Imagery NO Hawaii Regional and National Sector Imagery GOES-15 Sounder Imagery: There is NO sounder data for any GOES-West regions (GOES-15 Sounder Products including DPI, ASOS SCP, vertical profiles and GOES-15 Derived Products) LRIT: Out on GOES-West; however, users can re-point their antennas to GOES-East (GOES-13) if they can "see" the spacecraft. In addition, depending on vendor for LRIT station, some users can point to MTSAT (Japanese satellite) EMWIN: Out on GOES-West DCS: Out on GOES-West; however, we have switched the feed for GOES West to GOES East. Those of users within the footprint of GOES East will most likely get the data. Those users outside the footprint of GOES East, or with an angle that doesn't reach GOES East, will not. SARSAT: With the INSAT satellite and GOES East we cover most of the area under GOES-W. There is a gap in coverage from 150W to 170E about 40 degrees where there is no GEOSAR detection at this time. This area will only be covered by LEO satellites which will likely increase latency of any alerts that might occur. New Zealand, Fiji, New Caledonia and several other smaller islands are in this region. GINI Products: GOES-West was switched into a "WEST-LOOK-EAST" mode at 2105Z. This means that the West GINI started using GOES-East data for processing/creating products. There is a gap of data after 2030Z on 3/21/2012 until 2115Z. After that, every half hour using GOES-East data starting at 2115Z. Super National Blended TPW Sector Imagery (truncated in west) Low Cloud Base GOES Sounder DPI Cloud Top Pressure Effective Cloud Amount Lifted Index Total Precipitable Water Skin Temperature Winds ASOS SCP Soundings Update: #5 The GOES West data outage status has not changed. LRIT TEXT EMWIN DCS NWS are still red. GOES-15 recovery activities continue and all payloads and services remain off. The Engineering are estimating the recovery time to service for GOES-15 West on J/Day 083 at 1200Z. Engineering continues to run recovery procedures. GOES-13 East is operating in a Full Disk imaging mode while GOES-15 is out of service. Update: #4 The GOES West data outage status has not changed. LRIT TEXT EMWIN DCS NWS are still red. GOES-15 recovery activities continue and all payloads and services remain off. The estimated return to service for GOES-15 West is undetermined at this time. Engineering continues to run recovery procedures. GOES-13 East is operating in a Full Disk imaging mode while GOES-15 is out of service. Update: #3 The GOES West data outage status has not changed. LRIT TEXT EMWIN DCS NWS are still red. GOES-15 recovery activities continue and all payloads and services remain off. The estimated return to service for GOES-15 West is undetermined at this time. Engineering continues to run recovery procedures. GOES-13 East is operating in a Full Disk imaging mode while GOES-15 is out of service. Update: #2 The GOES West data outage status has not changed. LRIT TEXT EMWIN DCS NWS are still red. GOES-15 recovery activities continue and all payloads and services remain off. The estimated return to service for GOES-15 West is undetermined at this time. Engineering continues to run recovery procedures. GOES-13 East is operating in a Full Disk imaging mode while GOES-15 is out of service. Update: #1 The GOES West data outage status has not changed. Engineers are currently investigating this outage. Details/Specifics of Change: ESPC is currently not receiving GOES-15 West data due to a bad momentum unload. GOES-15 went into a sun acquisition mode and is unable to do any imaging. Operations personnel are trying to place GOES-13 into a full disk imaging mode. Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov at 301-817-3880 Web Site(s) for applicable information: See http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SATS/messages.html for this and other satellite related messages. See http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Operations/GOES/schedules.html for full GOES scanning schedules and scan sectors.